Word Meanings - LONG-DRAWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LONG-DRAWN)

• Lengthy
• Diffuse
• prolix
• tedious
• long-drawn
• verbose

Related words: (words related to LONG-DRAWN)

• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• DIFFUSER
  One who, or that which, diffuses.
• DIFFUSENESS
  The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
• PROLIXIOUS
  Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.
• VERBOSE
  Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. Too verbose in their way of speaking. Ayliffe. -- Ver*bose"ly, adv. --
• LONG-DRAWN
  Extended to a great length. The cicadæ hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable.
• DIFFUSELY
  In a diffuse manner.
• LENGTHY
  Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. "Lengthy periods." Washington. "Some lengthy additions." Byron. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy
• TEDIOUS
  Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome. -- Te"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Te"di*ous*ness, n. I see a man's life is a tedious one. Shak. I would not be tedious to the court. Bunyan. Syn. -- Wearisome;
• PROLIXNESS
  Prolixity. Adam Smith.
• PROLIXITY
  The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. "For fulsomeness of his prolixitee." Chaucer. Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.
• PROLIX
  pro before, forward + liqui to flow, akin to liquidus liquid; cf. OL. 1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written
• OVERTEDIOUS
  Too tedious.